Sam Swardlick, BA'41, of Canton, Massachusetts, was honored earlier this year when the High Street Bridge in his hometown was dedicated to him. Swardlick has lived on High Street his entire life. A charter member of the Canton High School Hall of Fame, Swardlick headed the Northeastern baseball team that won the New England Conference championship in 1940. During World War II, he served as a bombardier on a B-29, flying thirty-one combat missions. After the war, he headed Republic Plumbing Supply for more than forty years. He and his wife, Shirley, have three children, David, Joan, and Linda.

John T. Dizer, E'43, of Utica, New York, has written his fourth book, a study of popular children's fiction series, called American Children's Literature, 1890-1940: Heroic Tales That Shaped Adult Lives. The publisher is the Edwin Mellen Press. Dizer is retired from Mohawk Valley Community College as professor and dean emeritus. He writes that he is still bicycling. "I did fifty miles on an 1894 antique at the Wheelmen meet last summer. Also skiing when the weather permits, writing, and traveling. I am trying to wear out, not rust out!"